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Press release from organizers of the National Conference on Black Power providing a summary and analysis of the four day conference in Newark. The Black Power Conference began just days after the 1967 Newark Rebellion had come to a close and brought a wide array of national Civil Rights and Black Power leaders to Newark. — Credit: Newark Public Library

Leaflet distributed by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund including newspaper clips and a photograph regarding the protests against the development of the College of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark’s Central Ward. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund joined in the struggle with the Newark Area Planning Association and Committee Against Negro and Puerto Rican Removal to develop an alternate plan for the College of Medicine and Dentistry that would have originally displaced approximately 20,000 Black and Puerto Rican residents of the Central Ward. — Credit: Junius Williams Collection

Issue of the African-American newspaper, Advance, from January 6, 1966. The issue contains coverage of demands made by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) for the dismissal of Police Director Dominick Spina. CORE demanded Spina’s ouster in a meeting with Mayor Addonizio after a Black teenager, Walter Mathis, was fatally shot by Newark police. This issue also details several high-profile cases of police brutality from 1962-1966, a period in which Newark’s Black and Puerto Rican communities continuously advocated for police reform and accountability to no avail from City Hall. — Credit: Newark Public Library

The shooting of Lester Long was one of the most well-known and contentious cases of alleged police brutality in Newark during the 1960s and reinvigorated community demands for a police review board. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers

Article written by Newark Evening News reporter Hy Kuperstein on the shooting of Lester Long by Newark Patrolman Henry Martinez. Kuperstein conducted an interview with Martinez at the precinct after the shooting and reported that Martinez said he lost his balance as he got out of the car with his gun drawn. ‘The gun suddenly went off,’ Martinez is quoted. ‘I wasn’t trying to shoot him but he was hit.’ When the official police report came out, this detail was contradicted and Martinez claimed that he dliberately fired at Long. The shooting of Lester Long was one of the most well-known and contentious cases of alleged police brutality in Newark during the 1960s and reinvigorated demands for a police review board. — Credit: Junius Williams Papers

Photograph of William Maxwell, an influential political figure in Newark in the early 1900s. Maxwell was the first African American editor of the Newark Ledger and active in numerous political organizations in the city. — Credit: NJ Historical Society

A look inside an African American newspaper office in Newark in the early 1930s. The newspaper was most likely the New Jersey Herald News (later the Newark Herald News). — Credit: WPA Photographs, NJ State Archives

Poem written by William Maxwell, an influential political figure in Newark in the early 1900s. Maxwell was the first African American editor of the Newark Ledger and active in numerous political organizations in the city. — Credit: NJ Historical Society

Transcript of an interview with Stanley Wesolowski, owner of Newspapers Kronika, conducted by staff of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1940. The WPA employed millions during the Great Depression through projects such as ethnological surveys of major cities like Newark. — Credit: New Jersey State Archives